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The Master of the Myth of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye

The Master of the Myth of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye The eight essays in David Boyd’s and Imre Salusinszky’s Rereading Frye form a unified chorale that allows us to hear some main themes of an author whose ideas about the humanities have become—like the gospel in religion—nearly unavoidable.1 The Frye who said that, with his Anatomy of Criticism (1958), he became a “sixty-year-old smiling public man” at forty-five, balances the interiorly focused “Norrie” whom we are now meeting in the posthumously revealed Notebooks. A major project of the latter was his “Ogdoad”: two groups of four books each. “[T]he second group of four [. . .] were considered to be Blakean ‘emanations’ or counterparts of the first four,” like “the ‘double mirror’ structure of The Great Code and Words with Power : two inter-reflecting parts of four chapters apiece,” Michael Dolzani reports (RF 22). The present volume, dividing itself between a centripetal half focusing on Frye’s own, early mental self-construction, and a centrifugal half, treating his relations to the larger literary scene of theory, apparently models itself on a scheme Frye thrice arrived at for his own work. All the essayists recognize a published, explicit Frye—the Great Explainer— and an unpublished, implicit one, yet to be wholly explained. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

The Master of the Myth of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye

Comparative Literature , Volume 53 (1) – Jan 1, 2001

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by University of Oregon
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0010-4124
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1945-8517
DOI
10.1215/-53-1-58
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Abstract

The eight essays in David Boyd’s and Imre Salusinszky’s Rereading Frye form a unified chorale that allows us to hear some main themes of an author whose ideas about the humanities have become—like the gospel in religion—nearly unavoidable.1 The Frye who said that, with his Anatomy of Criticism (1958), he became a “sixty-year-old smiling public man” at forty-five, balances the interiorly focused “Norrie” whom we are now meeting in the posthumously revealed Notebooks. A major project of the latter was his “Ogdoad”: two groups of four books each. “[T]he second group of four [. . .] were considered to be Blakean ‘emanations’ or counterparts of the first four,” like “the ‘double mirror’ structure of The Great Code and Words with Power : two inter-reflecting parts of four chapters apiece,” Michael Dolzani reports (RF 22). The present volume, dividing itself between a centripetal half focusing on Frye’s own, early mental self-construction, and a centrifugal half, treating his relations to the larger literary scene of theory, apparently models itself on a scheme Frye thrice arrived at for his own work. All the essayists recognize a published, explicit Frye—the Great Explainer— and an unpublished, implicit one, yet to be wholly explained.

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Comparative LiteratureDuke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2001

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